Johannes Grenzfurthner

Johannes Grenzfurthner (born 1975, Vienna) is an Austrian artist, writer, curator, director.

He has published numerous books, essays and articles on contemporary art, science and philosophy.^[1][2][3]

He writes for various online/print magazines and radio stations (e.g. ORF,^[4] Telepolis, Boing Boing^[5]). Grenzfurthner has served on a number of art juries (e.g. Steirischer Herbst, Graz). He holds a professorship for art theory and art practice at the University of Applied Sciences, Graz, Austria and is a lecturer at University of Arts and Industrial Design in Linz, Austria.

Grenzfurthner is founder and artistic director of monochrom, an internationally acting art and theory group.^[6] He is collaborating with groups such as ubermorgen,^[7] Billboard Liberation Front,^[8] Esel and Mego (label).

He was one of the core team members in the development process of netznetz, a new kind of community-based funding system for net culture and net art together with the culture department of the city government of Vienna.

He is head of Arse Elektronika^[9][10] festival in San Francisco (2007-) and co-hosting Roboexotica^[11] (Festival for Cocktail-Robotics) (2002-).

He is co-organizing the DIY project "Hackbus",^[12] a community platform for mobile hackerspaces.

He wrote and directed a couple of theatre plays, for example at Volkstheater, Vienna.

Grenzfurthner has been selected as an Official Honoree for The 13th Annual Webby Awards.^[13]

Recurring topics in Johannes Grenzfurthner's artistic and textual work are: contemporary art, activism, performance, humour, philosophy, sex, communism, postmodernism, media theory, cultural studies, popular culture studies, science fiction, and the debate about copyright.

Publications

• Editor of magazine/yearbook series "monochrom" (1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 2000, 2004, 2006, 2007, 2010)
• Editor of "Stadt der Klage" (Michael Marrak, 1997)
• Editor of "Weg der Engel" (Michael Marrak and Agus Chuadar, 1998)
• Editor of "Who shot Immanence?" (together with Thomas Edlinger and Fritz Ostermayer, 2002)
• Editor of "Leutezeichnungen" (together with Elffriede, 2003)
• Editor of "Quo Vadis, Logo?!" (together with Günther Friesinger, 2006)
• Editor of "Spektakel - Kunst - Gesellschaft" (together with Stephan Grigat and Günther Friesinger, 2006)
• Editor of "pr0nnotivation? Arse Elektronika Anthology" (together with Günther Friesinger and Daniel Fabry, 2008)
• Editor of "Roboexotica" (together with Günther Friesinger, Magnus Wurzer, Franz Ablinger and Chris Veigl, 2008)
• Editor of "Do Androids Sleep with Electric Sheep?" (together with Günther Friesinger, Daniel Fabry and Thomas Ballhausen, 2009)
• Editor of "Schutzverletzungen/Legitimation of Mediatic Violence" (together with Günther Friesinger and Thomas Ballhausen, 2010)
• Editor of "Urban Hacking" (together with Günther Friesinger and Thomas Ballhausen, 2010)
• Editor of "Geist in der Maschine. Medien, Prozesse und Räume der Kybernetik" (together with Günther Friesinger, Thomas Ballhausen, Verena Bauer, 2010)
• Editor of "The Wonderful World of Absence" (together with Günther Friesinger and Daniel Fabry, 2011)
• Editor of "Of Intercourse and Intracourse – Sexuality, Biomodification and the Techno-Social Sphere" (together with Günther Friesinger and Daniel Fabry, 2011)

References

External links

• TEDx talk by Johannes Grenzfurthner on art and subversion
• Interview with Marc Da Costa/Furtherfield: part 1, part 2 and part 3
• Interview with V. Vale in Pranks! 2